Experiments with truth: 11/10/09
Tens of thousands of South Korean workers rallied Saturday to protest the government's plan to begin implementing contentious labor laws. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
- Thousands of Japanese gathered in sweltering heat on the southern island of Okinawa on Sunday to demand that a US Marine base be moved out of the region, days ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama.
- To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall yesterday, a group of masked activists in the West Bank used a lorry to pull down segments of Israel’s cement seperation wall before Israeli security forces confronted them with tear gas grenades.
- Tens of thousands of angry demonstrators rallied across Ireland on Friday to protest government plans for tough austerity measures.
- More than 30,000 workers of bakery shops across the Kashmir Valley went on indefinite strike on Saturday morning, protesting against the authorities’ cruel polices against them.
- Hundreds of teachers from private high schools in this western China city called a strike this week to protest low salaries and deplorable working conditions.
- Scores of environmental activists from five continents have begun a fast to put pressure on countries to agree a strong deal at climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.
- In Philadelphia, the strike by SEPTA workers that had paralyzed much of the region since last week ended yesterday morning with a signing of an agreement by SEPTA officials and leaders of Transport Workers Union Local 234.
- Kurdish political prisoners in Syria started an open-ended hunger strike on October 30, against the harsh conditions and unfair judgments of the Supreme State Security Court.
- Ten women among a group of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia have begun another hunger strike.
